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Laura Bauer

Kansas City

Reporter at Kansas City Star

Kansas City Star reporter. Love writing about children, the underprivileged and all types of crime and mayhem.

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  • 1 week ago | kansascity.com | Laura Bauer

    At Warren Hills Elementary School in Liberty, a cellular antenna stands very close to the school building, spurring health-risk concerns for parents. [email protected] After six teachers at one Liberty elementary school were diagnosed with breast cancer in the past five years, advocates desperate for answers are making a plea for more information.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Laura Bauer

    Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. Have the latest Reality Checks delivered to your inbox with our free newsletter. After six teachers at one Liberty elementary school were diagnosed with breast cancer in the past five years, advocates desperate for answers are making a plea for more information.

  • 2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Laura Bauer

    Israel's embassy in the U.S. posted a photo of the two victims of the shooting in Washington D.C., on May 21, 2025. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were employees at the embassy who were shot dead late Wednesday outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted "Free Palestine," authorities said.. Abaca/Sipa USA Hours after learning Sarah Milgrim had been killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel found the words he knew people needed to hear.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Laura Bauer

    Hours after learning Sarah Milgrim had been killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel found the words he knew people needed to hear. Words that even he, who is still processing the loss of a young woman he came to know at the University of Kansas and kept in touch with as she became a young leader in the Jewish community, can cling to. “The message we are giving is, what would Sarah want us to do?” Tiechtel told The Star.

  • 3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Laura Bauer

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Rep. Sam Graves has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to help investigate cancer cases at a Missouri elementary school where, in recent years, multiple teachers have faced cancer diagnoses. In a letter this week to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Graves said that parents, teachers and staff at Warren Hills Elementary in Liberty are looking for answers after at least six teachers have been diagnosed with cancer in recent years.

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Laura Bauer
Laura Bauer @kclaurab
5 Mar 25

RT @judylthomas: All Grandview police and fire chaplains associated with the International House of Prayer-Kansas City have been dismissed…

Laura Bauer
Laura Bauer @kclaurab
27 Feb 25

Six women say a man working at a Kansas City spa molested them during massages. Two shared their stories with The Star. “Staying silent is not going to bring any change or justice ... speaking up and speaking out is the best way to find healing.” https://t.co/gvWJj5AVQm

Laura Bauer
Laura Bauer @kclaurab
29 Jan 25

RT @judylthomas: "I won my case." Kansas Jan. 6 defendant demands K-State teaching job back with pay after Trump orders all charges against…